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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Dateline Davos: “ … Froman said he was busy answering questions and figuring out which issues can be resolved. He said he is
optimistic that those concerns can be addressed quickly. ‘And we are looking to [business groups and members of Congress] also to come forward with their ideas on how we might do so,’ he added.”
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">(There are some other voices and other ideas you should listen to, Mr. Ambassador)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I think VG may have majored in English.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">MFD :: IBT<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt"><span style="font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:black">Much ado about TPP<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#666666">By</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#666666"> </span></span><span class="vcard"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#666666;text-transform:uppercase"><a href="http://www.politico.com/staff/victoria-guida" target="_top"><b><span style="color:#666666">VICTORIA
GUIDA</span></b></a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#666666">01/21/16 10:00 AM EST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">With help from Doug Palmer and Adam Behsudi</span></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">MUCH ADO ABOUT</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> TPP:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">At
long last, New Zealand announced Wednesday that it will host the signing ceremony for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on Feb. 4 in Auckland, ending weeks of suspense over the timeline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Story Continued Below<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">"Following signature, all 12 countries will be able to begin their respective domestic ratification processes and will have up to two years to complete that before the agreement enters into force,"
New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The signing sets the stage for the Obama administration to send Congress the final text of the agreement for review and a Statement of Administrative Action detailing how it plans to implement the
pact. That, in turn, sets the stage for negotiations between the White House and Congress on implementing legislation for the agreement, with a vote possible before lawmakers adjourn for the summer in mid-July in the best-case scenario for the administration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Countries have been widely expected to sign the agreement in early February, but earlier the same day at a press conference U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said the new Canadian government
was still making it's mind up about the pact. The New Zealand statement seemed to imply all 12 countries would sign the pact, but there was no immediate word from Ottawa. Click here to read the statement:<a href="http://bit.ly/20g1dkR" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0A7CC4">http://bit.ly/20g1dkR</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">IT’S THURSDAY, JAN. 21!</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Welcome
to Morning Trade, where we decided to go literature themed for today. What do you think will be the title of Froman’s autobiography? Send titles and tips to me:<a href="mailto:vguida@politico.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0A7CC4">vguida@politico.com</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">or<a href="https://twitter.com/vtg2" target="_blank"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0A7CC4;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0A7CC4">@vtg2</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">FROMAN IN THE LAND OF
<u>HEIDI</u>:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Yodel-ay-hee-hoo! Froman is in Davos, Switzerland,
today for the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of global political and economic elites held amidst the snow-covered beauty of the Alps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Froman is expected to meet on the sidelines with European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and at least “one or two” trade ministers from Trans-Pacific Partnership countries, according
to USTR’s press office. A meeting of trade ministers from countries involved in the Trade in Services Agreement is also expected on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The chief U.S. negotiator is also slated to appear on a panel Friday to discuss the United States’ priorities for 2016. But he apparently won’t participate in a press conference earlier in the day
to discuss a set of trade policy options prepared by a group of experts known as the E15 Initiative, even though the WEF website says he’s slated to attend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">TPP PERSUASION:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Speaking
of the ambassador, Froman is sending the message that he’s listening to calls from business groups and some members of Congress to address their complaints with TPP through the way it is implemented, as well as other avenues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">“At this stage, we're talking with stakeholders, members of Congress, and we're looking at the various stages that TPP goes through, including, once it's approved, there's a period of time between
approval and entry into force, to look at how it's implemented,” Froman told reporters at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ winter meeting. “Obviously there’s enforcement issues as well. … We want to use all the tools we have available to us to make sure we're
addressing all the underlying concerns.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Froman said he was busy answering questions and figuring out which issues can be resolved. He said he is optimistic that those concerns can be addressed quickly. “And we are looking to [business
groups and members of Congress] also to come forward with their ideas on how we might do so,” he added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">U.S. MAYORS’ <u>
GREAT EXPECTATIONS</u>:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The U.S. Conference of Mayors has joined
the TPP fight, and mayors from Tampa, New Orleans, Atlanta, Little Rock, and West Sacramento, Calif., made it clear at the press conference with Froman that they intend to push hard for the deal. West Sacramento Mayor Chris Cabaldon said part of their support
means backing up federal lawmakers who support the deal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">“Ami Bera is the congressional representative from the Sacramento area in California – he supports the agreement,” he said. “And part of what we're saying is we will be there with our members of
Congress in our communities to stand with them as they take action to support passage of TPP.” Bera, one of 28 Democrats who voted for trade promotion authority, has faced strong public criticism from labor unions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Cabaldon also passionately spoke about the need for TPP.</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">He
noted that many of his constituents are worried about the prospect of a new trade deal. “One of the things we're constantly asked about the trade agreement, or about trade more generally is, ‘Aren't you worried about disruption, dislocation?’ And, yes, we
are,” he said. “You also need to ask some of our local taxi drivers about the disruption, not from local trade but from Uber and Lyft.” He also cited competition for restaurants from food trucks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">“The sense of chaos and disruption is a fundamental part of our modern economy, and trade is only one of many examples,” he said. “So not advancing trade agreements doesn’t prevent that dislocation.
It simply sticks our heads in the sand.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">TO KILL A</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> CUSTOMS BILL:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Sen.
Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said “work continues” to build support for stripping out a permanent Internet access tax ban from pending customs legislation, even if it comes at the expense of a bill that will beef up trade enforcement. “I think we’re moving in the
right direction,” he said after the Senate caucus lunches on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">“The customs bill has its own set of problems,” Durbin said. “I think you’ll find when cloture is called that it’s going to be a struggle for them to pass it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The customs bill is part of a conference report, which the House passed last month. On top of the addition of the Internet access tax moratorium, the conference report contained weaker language
to combat currency manipulation and provisions on climate change and human trafficking many Democrats opposed. Senate Republicans have demanded at least 10 or 11 Democratic supporters in order to meet the cloture threshold of 60, which would also be needed
to overcome a possible point of order Durbin could raise to try to strip the Internet tax language from the report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">THE BILL’S <u>GRIM PROGRESS</u>:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Sen.
John Thune said leadership still has the goal of bringing up the conference report for a vote this work period but was unsure about whether the votes would be there to carry it through.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">“I don’t know whether they are there or not,” he said Wednesday before the Senate caucus lunches. “I’ve had conversations with the Democrats, with the White House, of course with our members. I
would hope if it’s brought up we would be able to pass it, but it is still fluid at this point.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Thune, who ranks third on the GOP leadership team, said it’s likely the bill will be able to pass if “pro-trade Democrats vote the way they have in the past.” Thirteen Democrats voted for trade
promotion authority legislation over the summer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">THE CHINA DEFICIT
<u>ALSO RISES</u>:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The U.S. trade deficit with China could widen
further this year to a record level, but slapping tariffs on imports from the world’s second-largest economy as Republican front-runner Donald Trump has suggested won’t bring jobs back to the United States, John Frisbie, the president of the U.S.-China Business
Council, argued on Tuesday night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">“To try to apply tariffs and raise prices [on goods] from China is not going to drive production back here as much as it’s going to drive production to some other foreign location,” Frisbie told
reporters during a call on the group’s priorities for 2016. “What we import from China is stuff we imported from elsewhere before. It wasn’t made in the U.S. and suddenly went to China.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Still, Frisbie acknowledged the trade gap with China could continue to widen in 2016, providing fuel for one of Trump’s talking points. Final trade figures for 2015 are expected to show the bilateral
deficit increased about 8 percent to around $365 billion. That’s because U.S. imports from China continued to grow in 2015, but U.S. exports to the Asian powerhouse took a slide because of slower economic growth there. Those same trends could continue in 2016,
he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">THE CALL OF THE</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> BIT:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The
U.S. government’s main focus, Frisbie insisted, should be on persuading China to reduce market access barriers to both U.S. exports and investment. One way to do that is through a bilateral investment treaty, which the USCBC hopes will be concluded this year.
But Beijing should also move unilaterally to ease foreign ownership restrictions throughout its economy, Frisbie said, arguing that would help create a more favorable environment in the Senate when any treaty is put to vote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Frisbie said he expected China to issue a revised “negative list” offer in the investment talks before the end of March. That designates which sectors China wants to keep closed to foreign investment
and by implication which ones it is willing to open up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">GOLDMAN SACHS: CHINA IN
<u>CATCH 22</u>:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Meanwhile, a new report from financial services giant
Goldman Sachs describes the “great dilemma” facing the Chinese government in the face of a slowing economy and a sharp drop in its stock market that heralds the need for more economic reform and a rebalancing of its economy toward domestic consumption.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">“China is walled in. If the reforms are implemented too quickly, the country risks a sharp slowdown,” the report said. “If the reforms are implemented too slowly, or not at all, China risks an unsustainable
increase in its debt-to-GDP ratio, which could push the country past the tipping point into economic and, in all likelihood, political instability.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The report concludes that China has “both the will and the resources</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">to
avert a hard landing” in 2016, but makes a glummer assessment for the longer term. To read more, click here:<a href="http://bit.ly/1JiBbcG" target="_blank"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0A7CC4;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0A7CC4">http://bit.ly/1JiBbcG</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">INTERNATIONAL OVERNIGHT</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Japan’s TPP Minister Akira Amari is facing claims that he took illegal payments, but says his memories of the meeting in question are “fuzzy,” Bloomberg reports:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://bloom.bg/1OHsiGl" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0A7CC4">http://bloom.bg/1OHsiGl</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The United States has surpassed China as the top destination for foreign investment, The Wall Street Journal reports:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://on.wsj.com/1naOO35" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0A7CC4">http://on.wsj.com/1naOO35</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Textile manufacturing is starting to move away from China because of stagnant demand, according to the South China Morning Post:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://bit.ly/1SyqyoS" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0A7CC4">http://bit.ly/1SyqyoS</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">India and Australia are hoping to wrap up their free trade talks in the next few months, The Hindu reports:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://bit.ly/1lxD9u0" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0A7CC4">http://bit.ly/1lxD9u0</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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